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After 34 days in app review and after one rejection our new Super Trumps game with sexy photo models finally got into the App Store!

We’re taking proud in this app because we’ve spend month in finding adequate models to take part within our apps. First my wife Sabine and I have been collecting the data from hundreds of models and then contacted them to explain the form of participation. It took weeks until we had 32 models and appropriate images to develop the game.
The photos of the models are all of high quality, made by European photographers. With written agreements we made secure that we can use the photos within our application. In return we put a link to the homepage of the respective model on each card. If you’re a photographer too you can contact the models via their homepage to arrange a shooting.

We are also glad – above all after the rejection regarding “objectionable content” – that Apple has published the app with a rating of 12+. A higher rating would have been frustrating for us, because as lovers of art photography we’re having a completely different way of thinking about showing the beauty of the human body with the art of photography.

Therefore finally everything went fine and now we’re hoping that you’ll enjoy the new member of our Super Trumps series. For a longer time it also will be the last new Super Trumps game. At the moment we’re working on an interesting reference tool.

Everybody has read tons of articles regarding the prude and often inapprehensible review process of Apple. We also have published our own thoughts regarding that topic. After two month of rejections we’ve decided to quit developing Super Trumps (go fish) games with real persons (because of the risk to infringe personal rights) and to concentrate on other content. One is a new Super Trumps game with sexy foto models. Already in June we’ve contacted hundreds of professional and semi-professional models from the fotocommunity and the German Model-Kartei. We made the following offer to the models: They let us use one of their photos of which they have all rights of use or the admission of the photographer to provide it. And in return we will put a link to their personal website within the game (but of course the site will open externally within Safari, not within our app!).

After a lot of emails in and out we’ve got 32 photos of the participating models. Because of Apple’s handling of nudity we made a point of using only photos without nudity. The models on the photos are all dressed with a bikini or in lingerie. And because of Apple’s rejection of our Super Trumps games with persons (actors, footballers and basketball players) we contacted Apple in advance and stated that we have the written permission of all models to use their photos.

“Fine”, we thought … until we got another rejection by Apple. Two of our 32 photos are containing “objectionable content”. Yikes! Have we lost sight for a nipple?! Can there be seen the form of a vagina under the slip?! But get a picture of the problem for yourself! These are the two photos because of which Apple rejected our latest application:

Hmmm, can anybody tell me what could be the problem of these pictures? In my opinion they are even more harmless than a commercial for shower gel, shown on German TV at 6 pm.
And for what reason these two photographs are “objectionable” and these examples from apps within the App Store are not?

Why can the colleagues with (mostly low-quality) apps showing girls in bikini earn money with their photo apps while our app has been rejected? Just fortune? Bad karma? Injustice? Does Apple keep an eye on us because we’re sometimes publishing critics of their review process and the iPhone development program?

We do not know! We’ve contacted the two models and asked them to send us another photo. But that doesn’t mean that Apple won’t find some other “objectionability” within the photos. Could get interesting how this story will go on … If all else fails we could start a world-wide collection of signatures at http://www.wewantboobies.com 😉